The Writers Guild of America West announced on Tuesday that American Fiction writer-director Cord Jefferson has been named recipient of the 2024 Paul Selvin Award for the Amazon MGM Studios film, for which he won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay earlier this month.
Additionally, American Fiction — based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett — is nominated for the WGA Award for best adapted screenplay.
The comedy, which stars Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated novelist who writes a satirical book under a pen name that exposes the publishing industry’s limited view of Black life, has garnered numerous awards in addition to the Oscar, including the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a BAFTA award for best adapted screenplay and Film Independent Spirit Awards for best actor (Wright) and adapted screenplay. The film was also named as one of the year’s best by the...
Additionally, American Fiction — based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett — is nominated for the WGA Award for best adapted screenplay.
The comedy, which stars Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated novelist who writes a satirical book under a pen name that exposes the publishing industry’s limited view of Black life, has garnered numerous awards in addition to the Oscar, including the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a BAFTA award for best adapted screenplay and Film Independent Spirit Awards for best actor (Wright) and adapted screenplay. The film was also named as one of the year’s best by the...
- 3/26/2024
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Both Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay are full of beautiful writing, with a variety of genres and writers being acknowledged for their work this year.
We have previous Oscar winners nominated, such as Josh Singer, who co-wrote “Maestro” with Bradley Cooper; previous nominees such as “Oppenheimer” scribe Christopher Nolan and “Poor Things” penman Tony McNamara; and we have a whole bunch of first-time nominees such as “Past Lives” writer and director Celine Song.
But… could we have two first-time nominees win both writing categories? Oscar history says this is unlikely; this has not happened a single time in the last 10 years. There have, however, been five instances in both categories where rookie contenders have won the Oscar.
Best Original Screenplay
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in 2023 Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman” in 2021 Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won for “Parasite” in 2020 Brian Currie,...
We have previous Oscar winners nominated, such as Josh Singer, who co-wrote “Maestro” with Bradley Cooper; previous nominees such as “Oppenheimer” scribe Christopher Nolan and “Poor Things” penman Tony McNamara; and we have a whole bunch of first-time nominees such as “Past Lives” writer and director Celine Song.
But… could we have two first-time nominees win both writing categories? Oscar history says this is unlikely; this has not happened a single time in the last 10 years. There have, however, been five instances in both categories where rookie contenders have won the Oscar.
Best Original Screenplay
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in 2023 Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman” in 2021 Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won for “Parasite” in 2020 Brian Currie,...
- 2/9/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Margaret Riley, the agent, manager and Lighthouse Management & Media partner and producer on the 2019 film Bombshell, died Tuesday of ovarian cancer at her Brentwood home. She was 58.
Her friends Lainie Becky and Matthew Weinberg confirmed the news to Deadline.
Riley’s more than 30-year career in Hollywood began in production on commercials, features and documentaries. In 1992, she served as Director of Development for Tim Disney’s Virtual World Entertainment, a gaming/interactive company. While there, she developed sci-fi properties into films for New Line Cinema.
In 1995, she began working at production/management company Addis Wechsler and Associates, which later became Industry Entertainment, and was promoted from assistant to manager. In 2002, Riley founded Margaret Riley Management, which was acquired by Brillstein Entertainment Partners three years later. Riley left Brillstein in 2006 to join production/management company Lighthouse Management and Media, with her partners Aleen Keshishian and Zack Morgenroth.
Riley’s current...
Her friends Lainie Becky and Matthew Weinberg confirmed the news to Deadline.
Riley’s more than 30-year career in Hollywood began in production on commercials, features and documentaries. In 1992, she served as Director of Development for Tim Disney’s Virtual World Entertainment, a gaming/interactive company. While there, she developed sci-fi properties into films for New Line Cinema.
In 1995, she began working at production/management company Addis Wechsler and Associates, which later became Industry Entertainment, and was promoted from assistant to manager. In 2002, Riley founded Margaret Riley Management, which was acquired by Brillstein Entertainment Partners three years later. Riley left Brillstein in 2006 to join production/management company Lighthouse Management and Media, with her partners Aleen Keshishian and Zack Morgenroth.
Riley’s current...
- 1/25/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Margaret Riley, the respected agent, manager and Lighthouse Management & Media partner who served as a producer on the Fox News drama Bombshell, has died. She was 58.
Riley died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a private battle with ovarian cancer, her friends Lainie Becky and Matthew Weinberg told The Hollywood Reporter.
Riley was a talent/literary manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners from October 2006 through March 2016, when she joined Lighthouse Management & Media, which had just been launched by founder and CEO Aleen Keshishian.
“We are devastated by the loss of our colleague and friend Margaret Riley, who was a passionate advocate and champion for artists,” Keshishian said. “We share our deepest condolences and love with her family, friends and clients.”
Riley’s current and former clients over the years have included actors Mark Ruffalo and Bridget Moynahan; CSI creator Anthony Zuiker; directors Susanna Fogel, Stella Meghie and Rj Cutler...
Riley died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a private battle with ovarian cancer, her friends Lainie Becky and Matthew Weinberg told The Hollywood Reporter.
Riley was a talent/literary manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners from October 2006 through March 2016, when she joined Lighthouse Management & Media, which had just been launched by founder and CEO Aleen Keshishian.
“We are devastated by the loss of our colleague and friend Margaret Riley, who was a passionate advocate and champion for artists,” Keshishian said. “We share our deepest condolences and love with her family, friends and clients.”
Riley’s current and former clients over the years have included actors Mark Ruffalo and Bridget Moynahan; CSI creator Anthony Zuiker; directors Susanna Fogel, Stella Meghie and Rj Cutler...
- 1/24/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Poor Things,” “Oppenheimer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “American Fiction,” “All of Us Strangers,” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” all received Best Adapted Screenplay bids from the Critics Choice Awards thus giving their Oscar hopes in this category a timely boost. Some of them were lauded even further at the Golden Globes, which nominated “Poor Things,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” alongside “Barbie,” “Past Lives,” and “Anatomy of Fall” in a combined Best Screenplay category.
So, those are the preferences of those two awards groups. But what about the tastes of the academy? Well, below is a chart detailing the last 10 Oscar winners for Best Adapted Screenplay. We’re going to break this down to see what the academy likes and try to apply the findings to this year’s race.
As you can see, novels are the academy’s favorite source material, accounting for...
So, those are the preferences of those two awards groups. But what about the tastes of the academy? Well, below is a chart detailing the last 10 Oscar winners for Best Adapted Screenplay. We’re going to break this down to see what the academy likes and try to apply the findings to this year’s race.
As you can see, novels are the academy’s favorite source material, accounting for...
- 12/27/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
The first Floodlight Summit will take place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 in Cartagena, Colombia. The event, curated and organized by Philippa Kowarsky and Alesia Weston, is a one-of-a-kind pilot for a long-term alliance that seeks to connect investigative journalists and their reporting with the film and television industry.
The event has been established by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp) and the Gabo Foundation as part of both institutions’ public interest focus. It will attempt “to nurture a symbiotic relationship between investigative journalism and fiction filmmaking that will result in storytelling that entertains, educates, and inspires,” according to a press statement. “Investigative journalists can help adapt their extensive reporting about organized crime and corruption into new formats to reach more audiences while filmmakers can pull from a wealth of content and expertise across subjects to inform their projects.”
Writer-director Rodrigo García, Gabo Foundation board member and son of author Gabriel García Marquez,...
The event has been established by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp) and the Gabo Foundation as part of both institutions’ public interest focus. It will attempt “to nurture a symbiotic relationship between investigative journalism and fiction filmmaking that will result in storytelling that entertains, educates, and inspires,” according to a press statement. “Investigative journalists can help adapt their extensive reporting about organized crime and corruption into new formats to reach more audiences while filmmakers can pull from a wealth of content and expertise across subjects to inform their projects.”
Writer-director Rodrigo García, Gabo Foundation board member and son of author Gabriel García Marquez,...
- 11/27/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Investigative journalists specializing in crime and corruption reporting will pitch their stories to filmmakers and series at the first Floodlight Summit, which kicks off in Cartagena, Colombia, on Thursday, Nov. 30, and runs through Dec. 3.
Curated and organized by Oscar-nominated producer Philippa Kowarsky (The Gatekeepers, Sweet Mud) and Alesia Weston, the summit is set up as a pilot for a planned long-term alliance aimed at connecting international investigative journalists with the film and television industry.
Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, The Big Short and Bombshell writer Charles Randolph, Slow Horses and The Americans producer Graham Yost, Toni Erdmann producer Janine Jakowski and No Man’s Land director Danis Tanovic are among the confirmed industry attendees.
The Floodlight summit brings together the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp) and the Gabo Foundation, set up by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Marquez to promote quality journalism in South America.
“This is the kind...
Curated and organized by Oscar-nominated producer Philippa Kowarsky (The Gatekeepers, Sweet Mud) and Alesia Weston, the summit is set up as a pilot for a planned long-term alliance aimed at connecting international investigative journalists with the film and television industry.
Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, The Big Short and Bombshell writer Charles Randolph, Slow Horses and The Americans producer Graham Yost, Toni Erdmann producer Janine Jakowski and No Man’s Land director Danis Tanovic are among the confirmed industry attendees.
The Floodlight summit brings together the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (Occrp) and the Gabo Foundation, set up by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Marquez to promote quality journalism in South America.
“This is the kind...
- 11/27/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thomas “Eromose” Ikimi, director of the Tribeca Film Festival player “88,” has been tapped to write a new drama about a fierce wildlife preservationist and activist.
Eromose will write the screenplay for “Manaka,” a story inspired by the organization Saving the Wild and its founder Jamie Joseph. The Zimbabwean-born South African founded the charitable foundation to help protect rhinos from poaching, as well as to tell authentic stories about frontline workers protecting the species from going extinct.
Robbie and LuckyChap partners Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara will produce alongside Anthony Mastromauro for Im Entertainment and Charles Randolph. Brad Feinstein is also producing and financing through his Romulus Entertainment banner, alongside his development partner Christina Weiss Lurie of Fourth & Twenty Eight.
“It’s an honor to be working on a project of such importance to Africa. The complex rhino poaching crisis exposes wider ramifications, not only for South Africa, but for the entire continent.
Eromose will write the screenplay for “Manaka,” a story inspired by the organization Saving the Wild and its founder Jamie Joseph. The Zimbabwean-born South African founded the charitable foundation to help protect rhinos from poaching, as well as to tell authentic stories about frontline workers protecting the species from going extinct.
Robbie and LuckyChap partners Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara will produce alongside Anthony Mastromauro for Im Entertainment and Charles Randolph. Brad Feinstein is also producing and financing through his Romulus Entertainment banner, alongside his development partner Christina Weiss Lurie of Fourth & Twenty Eight.
“It’s an honor to be working on a project of such importance to Africa. The complex rhino poaching crisis exposes wider ramifications, not only for South Africa, but for the entire continent.
- 11/18/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
The summer’s most anticipated comedy is Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. After her two box office misfires of 2022 — “Amsterdam” and “Babylon” — Robbie is on the cusp of her first critical darling and giant financial hit in a long while. Two of her acclaimed performances brought her Academy Award nominations in the previous decade, so with “Barbie” opening in theaters, let’s look back at Robbie’s two Oscar races.
Her first Oscar nomination came in 2018 in the Best Actress category for her performance as Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya.” Written by Steven Rogers and directed by Craig Gillespie, the film tells the true-life story of Harding’s rise in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and how everything came crashing down. Robbie had been received Oscar buzz for at least one of her movies before this — Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,...
Her first Oscar nomination came in 2018 in the Best Actress category for her performance as Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya.” Written by Steven Rogers and directed by Craig Gillespie, the film tells the true-life story of Harding’s rise in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and how everything came crashing down. Robbie had been received Oscar buzz for at least one of her movies before this — Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,...
- 7/20/2023
- by Brian Rowe
- Gold Derby
Satirical filmmaker Adam McKay has his follow-up to the four-time Oscar-nominee “Don’t Look Up” ready to go at Netflix. “Average Height, Average Build” will star Robert Pattinson, Amy Adams, Robert Downey Jr., Forest Whitaker and Danielle Deadwyler. The premise, while a little far-fetched, aims to poke fun at the political lobbying system. Pattinson will star as a (retired) serial killer who hires a lobbyist (Adams), in the hopes of getting laws changed so he can literally get away with murder. Downey is a detective who has been on Pattinson’s character’s trail for years, and who refuses to give up.
According to Deadline, McKay shopped the script around before deciding to return to Netflix. “Don’t Look Up,” the environmental allegory comedy-horror, is said to be the Big Red Streamer’s second-most-watched film of all time, boasting 360 million streamed hours worldwide in its first 28 days.
The 55-year-old McKay began his...
According to Deadline, McKay shopped the script around before deciding to return to Netflix. “Don’t Look Up,” the environmental allegory comedy-horror, is said to be the Big Red Streamer’s second-most-watched film of all time, boasting 360 million streamed hours worldwide in its first 28 days.
The 55-year-old McKay began his...
- 5/1/2023
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Following the success of Don’t Look Up, Netflix and Adam McKay are reuniting as the streamer has acquired Adam McKay’s new star-studded directorial feature, Average Height, Average Build. The film stars Robert Pattinson, Amy Adams, Robert Downey Jr., Forest Whitaker and Danielle Deadwyler. McKay, who has written the script, will direct and produce under his Hyperobject Industries banner with Kevin Messick.
Much the way that the McKay-crafted series Succession and his films Don’t Look Up and The Big Short told entertaining stories that reflect what’s going on in the world, Average Height, Average Build sounds like a pretty ingenious marriage of a black comedy premise with the corruption that rife in politics.
Pattinson will play a serial killer who enlists a lobbyist (Adams) to change laws that will allow him to get away with murder more easily. Downey’s role is a retired cop who won’t give up on the murders,...
Much the way that the McKay-crafted series Succession and his films Don’t Look Up and The Big Short told entertaining stories that reflect what’s going on in the world, Average Height, Average Build sounds like a pretty ingenious marriage of a black comedy premise with the corruption that rife in politics.
Pattinson will play a serial killer who enlists a lobbyist (Adams) to change laws that will allow him to get away with murder more easily. Downey’s role is a retired cop who won’t give up on the murders,...
- 4/30/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Previous recipients include Barry Jenkins, Dustin Lance Black, Susannah Grant, Liz Hannah.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz will receive Writers Guild of America West’s (WGA) 2023 Paul Selvin Award in recognition of her adapted screenplay She Said at the Guild’s awards ceremony in Los Angeles on March 5.
She Said recounts the story of the investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reporters at The New York Times, who exposed decades of sexual abuse by then-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and in so doing ignited the #MeToo movement. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star.
Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Los Angeles court today.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz will receive Writers Guild of America West’s (WGA) 2023 Paul Selvin Award in recognition of her adapted screenplay She Said at the Guild’s awards ceremony in Los Angeles on March 5.
She Said recounts the story of the investigation by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, reporters at The New York Times, who exposed decades of sexual abuse by then-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and in so doing ignited the #MeToo movement. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star.
Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Los Angeles court today.
- 2/23/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Rebecca Lenkiewicz will be this year’s recipient of the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award in recognition of her adapted screenplay for She Said, the Universal film about the New York Times reporters who broke the story that exposed disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. The guild said Thursday that she will be honored at the WGA Awards’ Los Angeles ceremony March 5 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.
Lenkiewicz is also nominated this year for a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She Said is based on the investigation by Times reporters Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett, and the book by Kantor and Twohey that helped propel the #MeToo movement by uncovering the system that had enabled years of sexual assault by some of the most powerful men in Hollywood.
Related Story ‘She Said’: Read The Screenplay Chronicling How The New York Times Took On Harvey Weinstein Related Story...
Lenkiewicz is also nominated this year for a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She Said is based on the investigation by Times reporters Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett, and the book by Kantor and Twohey that helped propel the #MeToo movement by uncovering the system that had enabled years of sexual assault by some of the most powerful men in Hollywood.
Related Story ‘She Said’: Read The Screenplay Chronicling How The New York Times Took On Harvey Weinstein Related Story...
- 2/23/2023
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar nominated producer David Permut and Jamie Cohen of Australian-based Clockwork Films have acquired the narrative motion picture and television rights to award winning journalist and author David Kushner’s book, The Players Ball: A Genius, A Con Man, And The Internet’s Secret Rise.
The book tells the true story of the birth of the internet and two men’s ensuing battle over who controlled the rights to the multi-million dollar domain name: “sex.com.”
This epic, decade long war took them from the boardrooms of Silicon Valley to a gun fight on the bordellos of Mexico – and to the edges of their sanity. Along the way involving the likes of an eclectic cast of porn stars and programmers, billionaires and brainiacs, goons and gangsters.
In one corner is the hapless in-love, visionary tech entrepreneur Gary Kremen, who in 1994 used a 2,500 loan to create the first online dating service,...
The book tells the true story of the birth of the internet and two men’s ensuing battle over who controlled the rights to the multi-million dollar domain name: “sex.com.”
This epic, decade long war took them from the boardrooms of Silicon Valley to a gun fight on the bordellos of Mexico – and to the edges of their sanity. Along the way involving the likes of an eclectic cast of porn stars and programmers, billionaires and brainiacs, goons and gangsters.
In one corner is the hapless in-love, visionary tech entrepreneur Gary Kremen, who in 1994 used a 2,500 loan to create the first online dating service,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar-winning writer Charles Randolph will write, direct and produce a film about the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in China for Sk Global, which will finance and produce.
The project, which is still untitled, marks a directorial debut for Randolph, who wrote Fox News drama “Bombshell” and won an Academy Award with Adam McKay for adapted screenplay for “The Big Short.”
“I’m very happy to be working with everyone at Sk Global to get this right,” Randolph said. “The deeper we dig, the richer the story of Wuhan becomes. It’s one thing to fight a monster. It’s another thing to fight a monster in the dark.”
Sk Global co-CEOs John Penotti and Charlie Corwin made the announcement on Saturday. The film examines the dramatic weeks in China as the medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to become a global pandemic. The project is set to...
The project, which is still untitled, marks a directorial debut for Randolph, who wrote Fox News drama “Bombshell” and won an Academy Award with Adam McKay for adapted screenplay for “The Big Short.”
“I’m very happy to be working with everyone at Sk Global to get this right,” Randolph said. “The deeper we dig, the richer the story of Wuhan becomes. It’s one thing to fight a monster. It’s another thing to fight a monster in the dark.”
Sk Global co-CEOs John Penotti and Charlie Corwin made the announcement on Saturday. The film examines the dramatic weeks in China as the medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to become a global pandemic. The project is set to...
- 6/27/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Sk Global will finance and produce Oscar winner Charles Randolph’s screenplay. It’s being called the Untitled Wuhan Project, and examines the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to become a global pandemic. Randolph will make his directing debut.
Sk Global co-ceo’s John Penotti and Charlie Corwin made the deal and Randolph and Sk Global will produce and Margaret Riley will be executive producer. Xian Li is the executive in charge of development and on the ground production for Sk Global.
The project is slated to be filmed in China, utilizing Chinese and international talent and crew, as well in as other international locations. Randolph takes on the role of director after scripting the Fox News and Roger Ailes sexual harassment saga Bombshell, which starred Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
Sk Global co-ceo’s John Penotti and Charlie Corwin made the deal and Randolph and Sk Global will produce and Margaret Riley will be executive producer. Xian Li is the executive in charge of development and on the ground production for Sk Global.
The project is slated to be filmed in China, utilizing Chinese and international talent and crew, as well in as other international locations. Randolph takes on the role of director after scripting the Fox News and Roger Ailes sexual harassment saga Bombshell, which starred Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
- 6/27/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Charles Randolph, screenwriter of The Big Short and Bombshell, is set to write and direct an untitled Wuhan project for Sk Global, the company revealed Saturday.
The film, which will be Randolph's directorial debut, will examine "the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to be come a global pandemic."
"Charles takes us through an electrifying and revealing drama all of us are living through," said Sk Global's John Penotti and Charlie Corwin in a statement. "His vivid storytelling and insights are at the heart ...
The film, which will be Randolph's directorial debut, will examine "the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to be come a global pandemic."
"Charles takes us through an electrifying and revealing drama all of us are living through," said Sk Global's John Penotti and Charlie Corwin in a statement. "His vivid storytelling and insights are at the heart ...
- 6/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Sony Chairman Tom Rothman On Possible WGA Strike: “We’ve Always Worked Our Way Through These Things”
As we close the book on one of the most truncated and stressful Oscar seasons in history, the mindsets of many studio and network executives will soon turn to another case of agita: AMPTP’s upcoming contract negotiations with the WGA and the possibility of a writers strike.
Speaking to Deadline on the Oscars red carpet, Sony chief Tom Rothman said he wasn’t overly concerned about a potential work stoppage, because he believes the situation will yet be worked out.
“I’m not ultimately too worried about it,” he said, “but that’s because I’m an old hand and an old veteran, and we’ve always worked our way through these things, and I’m sure we will in the end this time as well.”
Rothman’s positive outlook comes two days after the WGA leadership on Friday announced that the guild’s members had voted overwhelmingly (91%) to...
Speaking to Deadline on the Oscars red carpet, Sony chief Tom Rothman said he wasn’t overly concerned about a potential work stoppage, because he believes the situation will yet be worked out.
“I’m not ultimately too worried about it,” he said, “but that’s because I’m an old hand and an old veteran, and we’ve always worked our way through these things, and I’m sure we will in the end this time as well.”
Rothman’s positive outlook comes two days after the WGA leadership on Friday announced that the guild’s members had voted overwhelmingly (91%) to...
- 2/10/2020
- by Antonia Blyth and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
There were far more important things than trophies to be concerned about last night at the WGA Awards as scribes on both coasts were consumed with the guild’s upcoming talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and of course, the possibility of a strike.
In speaking with a number of writers at both the Beverly Hills and NYC ceremony last night, Deadline heard the same demand from scribes: Give us our cut of streaming profits.
“The last big negotiation [in 2007] was just as streaming was on the table,” Jojo Rabbit filmmaker and WGA adapted screenplay winner Taika Waititi told Deadline last night in New York, “It is the platform and it’s where we all make our bread and butter now. So we have to re-negotiate.”
“This is a pivot point. It feels like every negotiation is an important negotiation, but we’re going through a tectonic...
In speaking with a number of writers at both the Beverly Hills and NYC ceremony last night, Deadline heard the same demand from scribes: Give us our cut of streaming profits.
“The last big negotiation [in 2007] was just as streaming was on the table,” Jojo Rabbit filmmaker and WGA adapted screenplay winner Taika Waititi told Deadline last night in New York, “It is the platform and it’s where we all make our bread and butter now. So we have to re-negotiate.”
“This is a pivot point. It feels like every negotiation is an important negotiation, but we’re going through a tectonic...
- 2/2/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
In the latest edition of Hollywood Insider's 'Behind The Scenes' - we focus on 'Bombshell'. Watch Charlize Theron (Megyn Kelly), Nicole Kidman (Gretchen Carlson), Margot Robbie, Jay Roach (director), John Lithgow (Roger Ailes), Charles Randolph (writer/producer), Connie Britton (Beth Ailes), Allison Janney (Susan Estrich), Kate McKinnon, Anne Morgan (Hair), Barry Ackroyd (Director of Photography), Bridgette Lundy-Paine (Julia Clarke) bring Bombshell to the big screen. The film and its cast with multiple Oscar buzz and Golden Globes nominations weave an important story for the big screen.
- 12/26/2019
- by Hollywood Insider Staff Writer
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Lionsgate dropped a “Bombshell” with Jay Roach‘s true life drama, which recounts the sexual harassment scandal that rocked Fox News. The film has emerged as a major Oscar contender with four SAG bids, including Best Ensemble and acting nominations for Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. Theron and Robbie additionally contend in the lead and supporting actress categories at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards, placing them in the heat of the awards race.
Gold Derby recently conducted video interviews with Kidman, screenwriter Charles Randolph and costume designer Colleen Atwood. Scroll down and click on any name below to be taken to their full chat.
See ‘Bombshell’ reviews: Charlize Theron is ‘remarkable’ in a Fox News satire that could be this year’s ‘Vice’
Though the subject matter “may be disturbing and cause you to recoil,” Kidman believes “it does entertain you” at the same time. In playing Gretchen Carlson,...
Gold Derby recently conducted video interviews with Kidman, screenwriter Charles Randolph and costume designer Colleen Atwood. Scroll down and click on any name below to be taken to their full chat.
See ‘Bombshell’ reviews: Charlize Theron is ‘remarkable’ in a Fox News satire that could be this year’s ‘Vice’
Though the subject matter “may be disturbing and cause you to recoil,” Kidman believes “it does entertain you” at the same time. In playing Gretchen Carlson,...
- 12/24/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
The rise and crash of WeWork and its founder Adam Neumann is getting the big-screen treatment from Blumhouse and Universal.
Screenwriter Charles Randolph, who won an adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Big Short,” is on board to write the film.
The troubled shared-workplace startup pulled the plug on an initial public offering in September after investors raised questions against its mounting losses. It accepted a bailout from SoftBank in October.
Blumhouse will produce and is adapting the movie from Katrina Brooker’s reporting and upcoming book, to be published by W. W. Norton, on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Neumann and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Brooker is a senior contributing writer for Fast Company. She has conducted in-depth interviews with Neumann and dozens of sources within SoftBank and WeWork, and written stories on the fallout of WeWork’s Ipo.
Randolph will also produce. He penned the script for Jay Roach’s upcoming “Bombshell,...
Screenwriter Charles Randolph, who won an adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Big Short,” is on board to write the film.
The troubled shared-workplace startup pulled the plug on an initial public offering in September after investors raised questions against its mounting losses. It accepted a bailout from SoftBank in October.
Blumhouse will produce and is adapting the movie from Katrina Brooker’s reporting and upcoming book, to be published by W. W. Norton, on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Neumann and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Brooker is a senior contributing writer for Fast Company. She has conducted in-depth interviews with Neumann and dozens of sources within SoftBank and WeWork, and written stories on the fallout of WeWork’s Ipo.
Randolph will also produce. He penned the script for Jay Roach’s upcoming “Bombshell,...
- 12/2/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
“I’m always so interested when we can have some kind of transparency of what it really is to be a woman in all of the complexities, all of the fucked-up-ness, all of the messiness. That’s when we’re telling the truth of who women really are,” said Charlize Theron to the audience at an October 19 SAG screening of her new film “Bombshell,” which tells the story of the Fox News sexual harassment scandal. Above, watch Theron discuss the film alongside co-stars Nicole Kidman and John Lithgow, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
The story isn’t just about harassment, though, it’s about how professional women are treated in general. When people look at ambitious women like Fox News personality Megyn Kelly, whom Theron plays, they often think, “She’s probably a bitch,” but the actress insists, “We’re taking that word back. We get to say that word.
The story isn’t just about harassment, though, it’s about how professional women are treated in general. When people look at ambitious women like Fox News personality Megyn Kelly, whom Theron plays, they often think, “She’s probably a bitch,” but the actress insists, “We’re taking that word back. We get to say that word.
- 10/21/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Charlize Theron is getting some of the best buzz of her career for channeling Megyn Kelly in “Bombshell,” but the Oscar-winning actress admits she almost turned down the role.
“I was shit scared,” Theron said during a question-and-answer session following a Manhattan screening of “Bombshell” on Sunday. Partly, she was worried about portraying someone who was “incredibly well known.” But Theron also recoiled from a newscaster who spent the bulk of her career on Fox News and who was fired from NBC for making racist comments.
“She’s conflicting,” Theron admitted. Moderator Alisyn Camerota pressed Theron, noting that she had portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s “Monster.”
“This was harder,” said Theron. As a producer on the film, she admitted she wondered if “there’s somebody out there who can do this better than you can.”
“Bombshell” certainly taps into the post-Harvey Weinstein zeitgeist. With its portrait of...
“I was shit scared,” Theron said during a question-and-answer session following a Manhattan screening of “Bombshell” on Sunday. Partly, she was worried about portraying someone who was “incredibly well known.” But Theron also recoiled from a newscaster who spent the bulk of her career on Fox News and who was fired from NBC for making racist comments.
“She’s conflicting,” Theron admitted. Moderator Alisyn Camerota pressed Theron, noting that she had portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s “Monster.”
“This was harder,” said Theron. As a producer on the film, she admitted she wondered if “there’s somebody out there who can do this better than you can.”
“Bombshell” certainly taps into the post-Harvey Weinstein zeitgeist. With its portrait of...
- 10/21/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Publicist Jodie Magid Oriol has joined 42West as a Vice President in its New York Entertainment Marketing Division. Company Co-CEO’s Leslee Dart, Amanda Lundberg and Allan Mayer made the hire.
Prior to joining 42West, Oriol worked at Pmk-bnc, where she collaborated on such clients as filmmakers Marielle Heller and Aaron Sorkin, composer/lyricist and playwright Joe Iconis; multi-hyphenate Catherine Reitman and actress Rachel Bay Jones. In addition, she is also currently working with screenwriter/producer Charles Randolph and actor Roman Griffin Davis. Before joining Pmk, Oriol was a senior veep of publicity at Lionsgate.
Oriol will work closely with Dart, Lundberg and Entertainment Marketing Division Presidents Tom Piechura and Susan Ciccone.
“We are so excited to welcome Jodie to our 42West team,” Dart, Lundberg and Mayer said in a statement. “She has been a valued friend and colleague to us in numerous capacities through the years, and will be...
Prior to joining 42West, Oriol worked at Pmk-bnc, where she collaborated on such clients as filmmakers Marielle Heller and Aaron Sorkin, composer/lyricist and playwright Joe Iconis; multi-hyphenate Catherine Reitman and actress Rachel Bay Jones. In addition, she is also currently working with screenwriter/producer Charles Randolph and actor Roman Griffin Davis. Before joining Pmk, Oriol was a senior veep of publicity at Lionsgate.
Oriol will work closely with Dart, Lundberg and Entertainment Marketing Division Presidents Tom Piechura and Susan Ciccone.
“We are so excited to welcome Jodie to our 42West team,” Dart, Lundberg and Mayer said in a statement. “She has been a valued friend and colleague to us in numerous capacities through the years, and will be...
- 8/27/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate has debuted the first teaser trailer for Emmy Award winner Jay Roach’s ‘Bombshell’ featuring Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman.
Directed by Roach from a screenplay by Charles Randolph. The film also stars Emmy Award winner Kate McKinnon, Golden Globe nominee Connie Britton, Emmy Award winner Mark Duplass, Emmy Award nominee Rob Delaney, Golden Globe nominee Malcolm McDowell and Academy Award winner Allison Janney.
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Bombshell Synopsis
Based on the real scandal, the film is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
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Directed by Roach from a screenplay by Charles Randolph. The film also stars Emmy Award winner Kate McKinnon, Golden Globe nominee Connie Britton, Emmy Award winner Mark Duplass, Emmy Award nominee Rob Delaney, Golden Globe nominee Malcolm McDowell and Academy Award winner Allison Janney.
Also in trailers – “I’m gonna tear you apart” new trailer for Rambo: Last Blood blasts in
Bombshell Synopsis
Based on the real scandal, the film is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
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- 8/22/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jay Roach’s Roger Ailes movie starring John Lithgow as the disgraced Fox News Channel boss is no longer going forward at Annapurna; this is days before its production start, Deadline has confirmed.
Word is the production cost of $35M was soaring upwards from that point, and for this film to be realized in the way that the filmmakers want it, they’re now considering other suitors including Amblin, Focus Features and Participant Media. Bron Studios continues to stay aboard as co-financier.
The project written by The Big Short Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph was exploding into a who-who’s all-star ensemble. Yesterday it was announced that Malcolm McDowell was boarding to play News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Charlize Theron is attached to play Megyn Kelly, Margot Robbie is Kayla Pospisil, and Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson.
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Word is the production cost of $35M was soaring upwards from that point, and for this film to be realized in the way that the filmmakers want it, they’re now considering other suitors including Amblin, Focus Features and Participant Media. Bron Studios continues to stay aboard as co-financier.
The project written by The Big Short Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph was exploding into a who-who’s all-star ensemble. Yesterday it was announced that Malcolm McDowell was boarding to play News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Charlize Theron is attached to play Megyn Kelly, Margot Robbie is Kayla Pospisil, and Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson.
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- 10/9/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicole Kidman is in talks to play former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson in “Fair and Balanced,” Annapurna’s upcoming movie about disgraced Fox News Chief Roger Ailes.
Kidman will join Charlize Theron, who will portray former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Jay Roach is directing with “The Big Short” scribe Charles Randolph penning the script.
Ailes ran Fox News and helped launch the careers of Kelly, Carlson, and Sean Hannity with his powerful channel. He also was also a prominent figure in Republican circles who helped elect presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush. He was forced to resign in 2016 due to sexual harassment allegations, with Carlson and Kelly’s the most high-profile, and which contributed to his exit from the network.
Theron will also produce, along with Beth Kono and A.J. Dix via their Denver & Delilah banner. Roach, Randolph, and Margaret Riley are also producing.
Kidman recently...
Kidman will join Charlize Theron, who will portray former Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Jay Roach is directing with “The Big Short” scribe Charles Randolph penning the script.
Ailes ran Fox News and helped launch the careers of Kelly, Carlson, and Sean Hannity with his powerful channel. He also was also a prominent figure in Republican circles who helped elect presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush. He was forced to resign in 2016 due to sexual harassment allegations, with Carlson and Kelly’s the most high-profile, and which contributed to his exit from the network.
Theron will also produce, along with Beth Kono and A.J. Dix via their Denver & Delilah banner. Roach, Randolph, and Margaret Riley are also producing.
Kidman recently...
- 8/1/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
We first heard about The Big Short in January 2015, when it was announced that Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling would star in the big-screen version of Michael Lewis' book about events that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010. Steve Carell later joined the cast. The movie was released late in the year to critical acclaim and earned four Academy Award nominations, including Bale as best supporting actor and Adam McKay as best director. McKay and Charles Randolph won the Oscar for best-adapted screenplay. Can lightning strike twice? Adam McKay has now written a script about former Vice President Dick Cheney and Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Amy Adams are all in talks to star, according to Variety. If things work out, Bale and Adams would portray Dick...
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- 4/6/2017
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Amy Adams and Steve Carrell also in negotiations.
After a string of blockbuster comedies starring Will Ferrell — Anchorman, The Other Guys, Step Brothers — writer-director Adam McKay side-stepped a little a couple years back with The Big Short, an ensemble flick about the real-life housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s. The film earned the best reviews of McKay’s well-reviewed career, and wound up with five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and one win for McKay’s screenplay (with Charles Randolph).
It shouldn’t be surprising then that for his big screen follow-up, McKay would return to the ripped-from-the-headlines genre, this time tackling a biopic of one of the most shadowy and misunderstood figures of this century to-date: Former Vice President Dick Cheney. And the cast he’s building? Start polishing the Oscars.
According to Variety’s sources Bale is on board to play Cheney, while Amy Adams is in talks to play his...
After a string of blockbuster comedies starring Will Ferrell — Anchorman, The Other Guys, Step Brothers — writer-director Adam McKay side-stepped a little a couple years back with The Big Short, an ensemble flick about the real-life housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s. The film earned the best reviews of McKay’s well-reviewed career, and wound up with five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and one win for McKay’s screenplay (with Charles Randolph).
It shouldn’t be surprising then that for his big screen follow-up, McKay would return to the ripped-from-the-headlines genre, this time tackling a biopic of one of the most shadowy and misunderstood figures of this century to-date: Former Vice President Dick Cheney. And the cast he’s building? Start polishing the Oscars.
According to Variety’s sources Bale is on board to play Cheney, while Amy Adams is in talks to play his...
- 4/6/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We first heard about The Big Short in January 2015, when it was announced that Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling would star in the big-screen version of Michael Lewis' book about events that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010. Steve Carell later joined the cast. The movie was released late in the year to critical acclaim and earned four Academy Award nominations, including Bale as Best Supporting Actor and Adam McKay as Best Director. McKay and Charles Randolph won the...
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- 4/6/2017
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
While bumming a cigarette off a stranger is becoming rarer these days, “Thank You for Smoking” could end up coming to our TVs anyway, reports Variety.
Thanks to Keshet Studios, the 2005 Jason Reitman satire is being adapted into an anthology series that would focus on a social issue each season. The first season of the revamped comedy would look at the gun control debate using the new title “Thank You for Shooting.”
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In the original film, Aaron Eckhart starred as Big Tobacco spokesman Nick Naylor who used everything in his power, including bribes, charisma and the logic of false equivalency to push his agenda. The movie also co-starred Maria Bello, William H. Macy, Rob Lowe, Adam Brody, Katie Holmes, J.K. Simmons, and Robert Duvall.
“Thank You for Smoking” is just one of many concepts being developed by Keshet, including...
Thanks to Keshet Studios, the 2005 Jason Reitman satire is being adapted into an anthology series that would focus on a social issue each season. The first season of the revamped comedy would look at the gun control debate using the new title “Thank You for Shooting.”
Read More: The Best TV Guest Stars Ever — IndieWire Critics Survey
In the original film, Aaron Eckhart starred as Big Tobacco spokesman Nick Naylor who used everything in his power, including bribes, charisma and the logic of false equivalency to push his agenda. The movie also co-starred Maria Bello, William H. Macy, Rob Lowe, Adam Brody, Katie Holmes, J.K. Simmons, and Robert Duvall.
“Thank You for Smoking” is just one of many concepts being developed by Keshet, including...
- 3/28/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– Hot Docs has announced the ten documentary features that will screen in this year’s Special Presentations program. Special Presentations features a high-profile collection of world and international premieres, award winners from the recent international festival circuit and works by master filmmakers or featuring some star subjects.
Special Presentations will screen as part of the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, running April 27 – May 7. The complete Special Presentations program and the full selection of films to screen at Hot Docs 2017 will be announced on March 21, including the 2017 opening night film.
The new titles include: “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” “Chasing Coral,” “Dolores,” “Elian,” “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower,” “In Loco Parentis,” “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,” “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” “Strong Island” and “The Workers Cup.
Lineup Announcements
– Hot Docs has announced the ten documentary features that will screen in this year’s Special Presentations program. Special Presentations features a high-profile collection of world and international premieres, award winners from the recent international festival circuit and works by master filmmakers or featuring some star subjects.
Special Presentations will screen as part of the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, running April 27 – May 7. The complete Special Presentations program and the full selection of films to screen at Hot Docs 2017 will be announced on March 21, including the 2017 opening night film.
The new titles include: “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” “Chasing Coral,” “Dolores,” “Elian,” “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower,” “In Loco Parentis,” “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,” “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” “Strong Island” and “The Workers Cup.
- 3/2/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
With just one week to go until the Academy Awards, the Writers Guild of America has announced the winners of the 2017 WGA Awards. Last year, the big WGA winners were Spotlight (Original), written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy, as well as The Big Short (Adapted), written by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay; plus Alex Gibney's Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief winning the award for Best Documentary. What have fellow writers determined to be the best scripts of 2016? The big winners are Arrival (Adapted), written by Eric Heisserer adapted from Ted Chiang's short story, and Moonlight (Original), written by Barry Jenkins. I'm so happy for both of these outstanding films! Congrats to both. Arrival and Moonlight are two of the best films of 2016, so it makes sense that they've won this award. And I'm happy for Barry and Eric. The other 2017 nominees for Best Original Screenplay...
- 2/20/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ousted Fox News head Roger Ailes is rapidly becoming the movie-making topic of 2017. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Going Clear director Alex Gibney has settled on Ailes as the target of his next documentary film. Gibney’s film is the third major Ailes project to go into development since the former News Corp. bigwig lost his job last year over sexual harassment allegations from a number of female employees. The Big Short writer Charles Randolph recently sold a movie about Ailes (and former Fox News star Megyn Kelly) to Annapurna Pictures, while Spotlight director Tom McCarthy is producing a miniseries about Ailes for TV.
Gibney has confirmed his documentary’s existence, but refused to offer any future details. He’s currently developing the project independently, with no network attached for broadcast as of yet.
Gibney has confirmed his documentary’s existence, but refused to offer any future details. He’s currently developing the project independently, with no network attached for broadcast as of yet.
- 1/26/2017
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
Ailes is heading to the big screen.
Alex Gibney quietly has been prepping a documentary about the former Fox News chairman, who exited in the summer amid sexual assault claims from women including anchors Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Gibney (UTA) confirms the film's existence but declines to elaborate. "As a matter of course, I don't talk about what I'm working on," he tells THR.
The move comes just two months after Annapurna Pictures nabbed an untitled pitch from The Big Short's Charles Randolph about the women who brought down the man once considered the most...
Alex Gibney quietly has been prepping a documentary about the former Fox News chairman, who exited in the summer amid sexual assault claims from women including anchors Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Gibney (UTA) confirms the film's existence but declines to elaborate. "As a matter of course, I don't talk about what I'm working on," he tells THR.
The move comes just two months after Annapurna Pictures nabbed an untitled pitch from The Big Short's Charles Randolph about the women who brought down the man once considered the most...
- 1/26/2017
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Variety reports that The Big Short scribe Charles Randolph is most likely set to pen a new script about another long-time institution that was supposedly “too big to fail”: ousted Fox News head Roger Ailes. Randolph recently sold a pitch for a film about Ailes, and the multiple Fox News employees who have accused him of sexually harassing them over the course of his long tenure at the network, to Annapurna Pictures. The film will also focus on Megyn Kelly, the network’s most prominent female voice, whose silence on the Ailes allegations has been a frequent source of speculation.
This isn’t the only portrayal of the Ailes scandal that’s currently in the works, either, ensuring that fans of gut-churning abuses of power won’t have to look far to get their fill. Back in October, we reported that Spotlight’s Tom McCarthy and Jason Blum were...
This isn’t the only portrayal of the Ailes scandal that’s currently in the works, either, ensuring that fans of gut-churning abuses of power won’t have to look far to get their fill. Back in October, we reported that Spotlight’s Tom McCarthy and Jason Blum were...
- 12/10/2016
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
A film inspired by Fox News employees' sexual harassment allegations against former Fox chairman, Roger Ailes, is on the way, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Big Short) will write the screenplay, which was scooped by producer Megan Ellison's production company, Annapurna.
The film focuses on the struggle of female employees like Gretchen Carlson, who sued Ailes for sexual harassment, and Megyn Kelly, who later alleged she had been sexually harassed by Ailes. Randolph's film has not yet secured life rights from its subjects, but...
The film focuses on the struggle of female employees like Gretchen Carlson, who sued Ailes for sexual harassment, and Megyn Kelly, who later alleged she had been sexually harassed by Ailes. Randolph's film has not yet secured life rights from its subjects, but...
- 12/9/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Annapurna Pictures has acquired a pitch about the alleged sexual misconduct perpetrated by former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes and has put the movie on the fast track, TheWrap has learned. Charles Randolph, who co-wrote “The Big Short” with Adam McKay, sold his script to Megan Ellison’s production company this week. Ellison will produce alongside Margaret Riley. Randolph is also attached to produce. The film will focus on Megyn Kelly and other women at Fox News who accused the bombastic chairman of numerous incidents of sexual misconduct and assault. Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes in July,...
- 12/9/2016
- by Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
The Big Short scribe Charles Randolph has set up a movie at Annapurna Pictures that is a fact-based drama on the hot-button subject of sexual harassment in the workplace, specifically at Fox News. He has been pitching the project around town for the past two weeks, and sources say recently deposed Fox News chief Roger Ailes is a substantial character in the film, along with the newswomen who lobbed accusations at him, which he has denied. The controversy began when…...
- 12/9/2016
- Deadline
First, there was a miniseries in the works about Roger Ailes' alleged sexual misconduct. Now, there's a film on the fast track at Annapurna Pictures as well, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Megan Ellison's studio has scooped up a pitch from The Big Short's Charles Randolph about the former Fox News chairman. Randolph, who won an Oscar in February for co-writing with Adam McKay the chronicle of the financial crisis of the mid-2000s, is writing the project that will focus on Megyn Kelly and the women who brought down the man once considered the most powerful in media with accusations...
Megan Ellison's studio has scooped up a pitch from The Big Short's Charles Randolph about the former Fox News chairman. Randolph, who won an Oscar in February for co-writing with Adam McKay the chronicle of the financial crisis of the mid-2000s, is writing the project that will focus on Megyn Kelly and the women who brought down the man once considered the most powerful in media with accusations...
- 12/9/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar-winner to move ahead with film about controversial politician and businessman, who was vice-president to George W Bush
Adam McKay, the Oscar-winning director of The Big Short, is to follow up that film with one about Dick Cheney, Us vice president to George Bush for both of the latter’s terms of office.
According to Deadline, McKay has been working on the script well before Donald Trump’s election victory; in fact since The Big Short’s impressive Academy awards showing, where it was nominated for five Oscars (including best director), winning one for McKay and Charles Randolph for best adapted screenplay.
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Adam McKay, the Oscar-winning director of The Big Short, is to follow up that film with one about Dick Cheney, Us vice president to George Bush for both of the latter’s terms of office.
According to Deadline, McKay has been working on the script well before Donald Trump’s election victory; in fact since The Big Short’s impressive Academy awards showing, where it was nominated for five Oscars (including best director), winning one for McKay and Charles Randolph for best adapted screenplay.
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- 11/22/2016
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
Wong Kar-wai often takes three-to-four-year breaks in between films, so fans have been particularly anxious as of late for updates on a new feature given that it’s been three years since “The Grandmaster” opened to strong reviews and two Oscar nominations. The director has kept things relatively quiet in the interim, quietly announcing he’d be co-producing and co-directing an online drama series in China, but it looks like word is now out about the director’s anticipated return to moviemaking.
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Briefly mentioned and confirmed in a new The Hollywood Reporter profile on Annapurna founder Meagn Ellison, it appears Wong Kar-wai is attached to direct the long-gestating Gucci family drama that has been circulating around Hollywood for the past couple years. The Film Stage reports the film was originally going to be directed by Ridley Scott,...
Read More: Wong Kar-wai Producing, Co-Directing Online Drama Series for China’s Huanxi Media Group
Briefly mentioned and confirmed in a new The Hollywood Reporter profile on Annapurna founder Meagn Ellison, it appears Wong Kar-wai is attached to direct the long-gestating Gucci family drama that has been circulating around Hollywood for the past couple years. The Film Stage reports the film was originally going to be directed by Ridley Scott,...
- 11/16/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
After finally releasing his long-gestating action epic The Grandmaster a few years back, Wong Kar-wai has stayed fairly quiet. That is until this summer, when we learned he teamed with the powerful Chinese production company Huanxi Media Group to fund an original, 18-episode drama series to produce and direct a few episodes of. With production not kicking off until next year for that series and details being scant so far, we now have word of a promising new feature film he will reportedly direct.
Buried at the bottom of a THR article about Megan Ellison‘s Annapurna Pictures and how they plan to have a “content empire” is the news that the In the Mood For Love director will helm Gucci for the company. Years ago it was attached to Ridley Scott with Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead — as well as Penelope Cruz circling at one point — but that talent has left,...
Buried at the bottom of a THR article about Megan Ellison‘s Annapurna Pictures and how they plan to have a “content empire” is the news that the In the Mood For Love director will helm Gucci for the company. Years ago it was attached to Ridley Scott with Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead — as well as Penelope Cruz circling at one point — but that talent has left,...
- 11/16/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Having already wrapped production on HBO’s Vice Principals, Walton Goggins has attached himself to another premium cable comedy.
The Justified alum is set to star in Showtime’s Keeping It Real, a dark comedy written by Academy Award-winning scribe Charles Randolph (The Big Short). The project reunites Goggins with executive producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly, who previously served as EPs on the aforementioned FX drama.
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Per our sister site Deadline, the potential series will follow a self-absorbed movie star who travels the world hellbent on inserting himself into international incidents.
The Justified alum is set to star in Showtime’s Keeping It Real, a dark comedy written by Academy Award-winning scribe Charles Randolph (The Big Short). The project reunites Goggins with executive producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly, who previously served as EPs on the aforementioned FX drama.
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Per our sister site Deadline, the potential series will follow a self-absorbed movie star who travels the world hellbent on inserting himself into international incidents.
- 9/22/2016
- TVLine.com
Walton Goggins is set as the star of a high-profile comedy project, which has landed at Showtime for development with a significant commitment. Titled Keeping It Real, the dark comedy is created/written by Charles Randolph, an Oscar winner for co-writing The Big Short, and has two other writing Oscar winners, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants), attached to direct. The project hails from Showtime as well as CBS TV Studios and studio-based Timberman/Beverly, reuniting…...
- 9/21/2016
- Deadline TV
“The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly increasing numbers. Marihuana!”
Reefer Madness screens Thursday August 4th at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue Maplewood, Mo 63143). $6 for the screening.
In 1932, Harry Anslinger was named head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The position was not much more than a figurehead because all the bureau was involved in was the amount of morphine etc. that were in medicine like cough syrup. Anslinger wanted more power and the best way to get power was to put more “narcotics” under his control. So he set his sights on marijuana. He met and became friends with Charles Randolph Hearst (the Citizen Kane guy!) and they talked about their shared dislike of cannabis. During this time,...
Reefer Madness screens Thursday August 4th at 7:00pm at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue Maplewood, Mo 63143). $6 for the screening.
In 1932, Harry Anslinger was named head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The position was not much more than a figurehead because all the bureau was involved in was the amount of morphine etc. that were in medicine like cough syrup. Anslinger wanted more power and the best way to get power was to put more “narcotics” under his control. So he set his sights on marijuana. He met and became friends with Charles Randolph Hearst (the Citizen Kane guy!) and they talked about their shared dislike of cannabis. During this time,...
- 7/28/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Legendary Pictures has won a bidding war for a high finance tale with Jennifer Lawrence attached to star and Adam McKay set to write and direct.
Legendary Pictures has won a bidding war for Bad Blood, a high finance tale with Jennifer Lawrence (pictured) attached to star and Adam McKay set to write and direct.
Universal will distribute worldwide under its deal with Legendary.
Lawrence will play Elizabeth Holmes, the controversial Us health tech entrepreneur who founded Theranos, a startup whose blood testing technology earned it a multi-billion dollar valuation before the company came under federal investigation.
McKay most recently directed and co-wrote Wall Street dramedy The Big Short, for which he and Charles Randolph won last year’s best adapted screenplay Oscar.
The Bad Blood package - which included film rights to a book proposal about Holmes and Theranos - reportedly attracted bids from Big Short-distributor Paramount and several other studios and mini-majors as well as...
Legendary Pictures has won a bidding war for Bad Blood, a high finance tale with Jennifer Lawrence (pictured) attached to star and Adam McKay set to write and direct.
Universal will distribute worldwide under its deal with Legendary.
Lawrence will play Elizabeth Holmes, the controversial Us health tech entrepreneur who founded Theranos, a startup whose blood testing technology earned it a multi-billion dollar valuation before the company came under federal investigation.
McKay most recently directed and co-wrote Wall Street dramedy The Big Short, for which he and Charles Randolph won last year’s best adapted screenplay Oscar.
The Bad Blood package - which included film rights to a book proposal about Holmes and Theranos - reportedly attracted bids from Big Short-distributor Paramount and several other studios and mini-majors as well as...
- 6/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
20th Century Fox Taps Boom! Superhero Tale ‘Irredeemable’; Adam McKay Helms, Tommy Wirkola Scripting
Exclusive: Move over, X-Men and Deadpool. 20th Century Fox has tapped into an entirely new superhero universe. The studio has acquired Irredeemable, a Boom! Comics comic book that will be adapted by Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters writer-director Tommy Wirkola as a directing vehicle for Adam McKay. McKay, who with Charles Randolph just won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Big Short, is a big comic book fan who co-wrote Marvel’s Ant-Man and wrote with Paul Rudd…...
- 5/5/2016
- Deadline
Aaron Paul has seen the light — quite literally, in fact.
The Breaking Bad alum is at the center of Hulu’s official poster for The Path, its upcoming drama created by Parenthood producer Jessica Goldberg.
VideosThe Path Trailer: Can Hugh Dancy Lure Aaron Paul to the Cult Side?
Premiering Wednesday, March 30, the series stars Paul as Eddie Lane, a family man who is drawn to the center of a controversial cult as he and his wife (True Detective‘s Michelle Monaghan) struggle with relationships, faith and power. Hannibal‘s Hugh Dancy co-stars as Cal Roberts, the enigmatic leader of the titular cult.
The Breaking Bad alum is at the center of Hulu’s official poster for The Path, its upcoming drama created by Parenthood producer Jessica Goldberg.
VideosThe Path Trailer: Can Hugh Dancy Lure Aaron Paul to the Cult Side?
Premiering Wednesday, March 30, the series stars Paul as Eddie Lane, a family man who is drawn to the center of a controversial cult as he and his wife (True Detective‘s Michelle Monaghan) struggle with relationships, faith and power. Hannibal‘s Hugh Dancy co-stars as Cal Roberts, the enigmatic leader of the titular cult.
- 3/15/2016
- TVLine.com
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